Cueball on the right is talking to his (Cueball-like) friend about dreaming but using words and phrases to make dreaming sound much more dramatic than we usually think that it is. Although the description is completely correct.

Randall is using the comic to make a point about how we think dreaming is so normal, but if we actually realize what's happening, dreaming is very strange:

go comatose for a few hours = sleep for a few hours

hallucinate vividly = dream

suffer amnesia about the whole experience = forget the dream

The character on the left takes this as though the experience is normal. Which it indeed is, but that is why Randall has the caption above the guys: Sometimes it seems bizarre to me that we take dreaming in stride.

The title text is about lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming. This is even more facinating to Randall. He uses this type of dream in 269: TCMP.

Discussion

Should the paragraph on lucid dreaming note that those dreams are more frequently remembered? 108.162.216.209 00:20, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since there is clearly one Cueball that is the protagonist and do the "talking" he should probably be listed as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball --Kynde (talk) 19:50, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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